Animal fats pancreas cancer link (BBC)

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Eating a diet high in red meat and dairy products is linked to an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, a US study has suggested.

Researchers followed 500,000 people who had completed a food diary for an average of six years.

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute paper found those who had the most animal fats in their diet had a higher risk of developing the cancer.

UK experts said cutting down on the fats was a way of reducing risk.

There has previously been confusion over whether there was a link between animal fats and pancreatic cancer, with different studies reaching opposite conclusions.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8119093.stm

[KT2000]

1. It is likely what is in the fat

Fat is where the fat soluble toxic chemicals are stored in the bodies of living things. When we eat fats from fish and mammals we are also eating the toxic chemicals they have been exposed to.

Besides cutting down on fats we should be eliminating exposures to toxic chemicals.

[Bluestar]

2. And yet Steve Jobs, a strict vegetarian, got pancreatic cancer n/t

[flvegan]

3. Nevermind.

Not going to bother.

[Big Blue Marble]

4. Vegetarians it animal fats.

They are called dairy foods. I know. I am a vegetarian.;-)